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Nancy Ann Thayer Mitchell

Birth
Williamsburg, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
1886 (aged 84–85)
Fayette County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
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She was a schoolteacher, known as Miss Ann Thayer, who came from Williamsburg, MA in 1819. In 1823, she began teaching in the first school established in the Sunnyside and Red House communities of Garrett County (then part of Allegany County). Classes were conducted in the old log "Sunsan's Church," which stood next to the site of the Rinehart Cemetery. - This information is recorded in the "Oakland Centennial History Book, 1849-1949" by Thekla Fundenberg Weeks. - Ray Sant. (Oct. 2023)

Parents: Stephen and Martha Washburn (Packard) Thayer. Wife of Hiram Mitchell.
She was a schoolteacher, known as Miss Ann Thayer, who came from Williamsburg, MA in 1819. In 1823, she began teaching in the first school established in the Sunnyside and Red House communities of Garrett County (then part of Allegany County). Classes were conducted in the old log "Sunsan's Church," which stood next to the site of the Rinehart Cemetery. - This information is recorded in the "Oakland Centennial History Book, 1849-1949" by Thekla Fundenberg Weeks. - Ray Sant. (Oct. 2023)

Parents: Stephen and Martha Washburn (Packard) Thayer. Wife of Hiram Mitchell.


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